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Title: Pancreatic Cancer Report 1995-2002 Authors: Neal W. Wilkinson ...

Source: www.uihealthcare.com
Topic: Pancreas
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Sort Desciption: It is estimated that 30,700 patients will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the United States, and Iowa alone is estimated to experience 300 deaths in 2003*. ...

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It is estimated that 30,700 patients will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the United States, and Iowa alone is estimated to experience 300 deaths in 2003*. The great majority of patients receive only chemo radiation therapy or palliative care with little impact on survival. The long-term survival for pancreatic cancer patients remains 3% to 5 % and has improved only slightly over the past few decades. This is in spite of dramatic improvements in preoperative staging, surgical techniques and adjuvant therapies. With improvements in imaging, helical CT, MRI, and EUS, we can now select patients who may benefit from aggressive surgical resection. Successful surgical outcomes by large pancreatic centers of excellence are real and reproducible. This improvement in preoperative staging translates into fewer patients undergoing nontherapeautic laparotomies and/or palliative resections. Unfortunately, efforts at early tumor detection or screening for pancreatic cancer still have not been developed or implemented at this point. Despite our best efforts, 85% to 90% of the patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer still present ...

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